I stared at myself in the mirror, physically smoothing out the furrow of my brow, trying to relax my expression. Once that was done, I started to touch up my makeup, gently putting on a bit more eyeliner.

The dress I was wearing was an off the shoulder black dress with a corset-like top and loose skirt that went down to my black stilettos. I had curled my hair for the occasion and busted out my old sparkly silver clutch that was only big enough to hold my phone and a small ...